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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Into the Real by John Ringo and Lydia Sherre
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:13:17 -0500
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On 10/21/2024 11:23 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:01:57 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/20/2024 5:06 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> Hello typers and reades.
>>>
>>>       "Into the Real" by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer.
>>>
>>>       The heroine of the story is a HS student Lynn Raven, a descendant
>>> of a Lakota warrior.  She is a bit heavy which has lead to lots of
>>> ridicule by vicious Popular students.  At the beginning of the story
>>> she is absorbed in virtual war gaming.  She has constructed male
>>> ex-military persona for the war gaming and is quite high in the
>>> rankings and hired by other parties to help defeat their opponents.
>>> In her own words she loves to kill stuff.
>>>       Her mother is a nurse working nights and is unaware of her
>>> daughter's gaming interests being mainly concerned with paying off
>>> debts accrued after her husband's murder while he was working undercover.
>>>       Suddenly Lynn is offered a chance to be a beta tester for the
>>> game Transdimensional Hunter by one of the creators of the game.
>>> She leads 2 teams  to victory in a regional tournament.
>>> "Into the Real" refers to the idea that this young woman has been a
>>>    typical gamer in that she spends all her time in the body-conforming
>>> chair in front of her monitor.  She, taking on the role of beta tester,
>>> is forced to since it is an Augmented Reality game like the Pokemon
>>> capture game played with smart phone and she has to go outside.
>>> Unlike the Pokemon game the Transdimensional Monsters are vicious
>>> and she has to use weapons to defeat the monsters and then collect
>>> what they drop so she is forced to get into shape.
>>>       Now throughout the story various power failures take place and
>>> these are all clues which I put together but at the end of the story
>>> I was totally correct.
>>>       This is very similar to other stories where game players are
>>> training for wars or fighting them.  Ringo and Sherrer do good work
>>> and if you have time you should read this.
>>>
>>>       bliss
>>
>> I agree.  I read this back in May, here is my review.  And Baen sent me
>> a replacement hardback for my falling apart MMPB.
>>
>> "Into the Real (Transdimensional Hunter)" by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer
>>     https://www.amazon.com/Into-Real-John-Ringo/dp/1982192577/
>>
>> Book number one of a two book science fiction series.  I read the well
>> printed and terribly bound MMPB that I bought new from Amazon that was
>> published by Baen in 2023.  I contacted Baen about replacing the MMPB
>> since about 60 or 80 pages fell out as I was reading the book, a
>> replacement is reputedly on the way.  I have ordered the second book in
>> MMPB in the series which is due out in November 2024.
>>
>> Lynn Raven is a 16 year old girl living with her ER nurse widowed mom in
>> the Baltimore area of the USA in the 2040s.  Lynn moonlights after high
>> school as an old mercenary named Larry Coughlin, a Tier One player in
>> the WarMonger 2050 FPS (first person shooter) online game.  She collects
>> guns and health in the game for resale for hard cash dollars, helping
>> her mom out with the bills and saving money for college.   And she also
>> torments boys in her school, killing their characters randomly in the
>> WarMonger game.
>>
>> But Lynn has been noticed by the billionaire inventor, Robert Krator, of
>> WarMonger 2050.  And he wants her to move to his new game, an outside AR
>> (augmented reality) FPS game called TransDimensional Hunter, as a beta
>> tester with free equipment and such.  He wants Lynn to step into the real.
>>
>> As usual with John Ringo books, he dedicated the book to:
>> "As always
>> For Captain Tamara Long, USAF
>> Born: May 12, 1979
>> Died: March 23, 2003, Afghanistan
>> You fly with the angels now.".
>> Lydia Sherrer dedicated the book to her husband.
>>
>> My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
>> Amazon rating:  4.7 out of 5 stars (1,129 reviews)
> 
> Do you think they sent a hardback because of the inconvenience ... or
> because they couldn't find an MMPB copy that didn't fall apart when
> they opened it?

No idea.  I hope that the entire MMPB run was not defective.

Lynn